Jim Gates: Supersymmetry, String Theory and Proving Einstein Right

Lex Fridman Podcast

Lex Fridman

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2019

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Jim Gates (S James Gates Jr.) is a theoretical physicist and professor at Brown University working on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory. He served on former President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He is the co-author of a new book titled Proving Einstein Right about the scientists who set out to prove Einstein’s theory of relativity. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with S. James Gates Jr.
0:03.8	He's a theoretical physicist and professor of Brown University,
0:07.3	working on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory.
0:11.4	He's served on former President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology,
0:16.5	and he's now the co-author of a new book titled Proving Einstein Right
0:21.6	about the scientists who set out to prove Einstein's theory of relativity.
0:26.5	You may have noticed that I've been speaking with not just computer scientists,
0:30.2	but philosophers, mathematicians, physicists, economists, and soon much more.
0:35.2	To me, AI is much bigger than deep learning, bigger than computing.
0:39.3	It is our civilization's journey into understanding the human mind
0:43.0	and creating echoes of it in the machine.
0:45.7	That journey includes, of course, the world of theoretical physics
0:50.3	and its practice of first principles, mathematical thinking,
0:53.4	and exploring the fundamental nature of our reality.
0:57.5	This is the Artificial Intelligence Podcast.
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